These New Years Eve quotes will inspire you. In the Gregorian calendar, New Year’s Eve (also known as Old Year’s Day or Saint Sylvester’s Day in many countries), the last day of the year, is on 31 December.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging New Years Eve quotes, New Years Eve sayings, and New Years Eve proverbs.
Best New Years Eve Quotes
- “I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re Doing Something.” ~ Neil Gaiman
- “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” ~ Steve Jobs
- “The only way to spend New Year’s Eve is either quietly with friends or in a Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.” ~ W. H. Auden
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“What you do for Jewish New Year is you go down to Times Square. It’s a lot quieter than the regular New Year. It’s just a few Jews walking around going, “sup?”” ~ Jon Stewart
- “Make New Year’s goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that you’re interested in fully living life in the year to come.” ~ Melody Beattie
- “The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.” ~ Melody Beattie
- “Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before. Whatever you’re scared of doing, Do it.” ~ Neil Gaiman
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“I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.” ~ Anais Nin
- “New Year’s Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.” ~ Jay Leno
- “May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall!” ~ Aleister Crowley
- “The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.” ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
- “Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.” ~ Helen Keller , Happy new years eve quotes
- “Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier’.” ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
- “Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.” ~ Ellen Goodman
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“Of all sound of all bells… most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.” ~ Charles Lamb
- “New Year’s is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.” ~ Mark Twain
- “Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.” ~ Bill Vaughan
- “Whether we want them or not, the New Year will bring new challenges; whether we seize them or not, the New year will bring new opportunities.” ~ Michael Josephson
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“Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.” ~ Mark Twain
- “Another fresh new year is here. Another year to live! To Banish worry, doubt and fear, to love and give” ~ William Arthur Ward
- “Approach the New Year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day.” ~ Michael Josephson
- “So that’s my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before. Don’t freeze, don’t stop, don’t worry that it isn’t good enough, or it isn’t perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.” ~ Neil Gaiman
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“The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.” ~ George William Curtis
- “For a new year to bring you something new, make a move, like a butterfly tearing its cocoon! Make a move!” ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
- “He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool.” ~ Farquhar McGillivray Knowles
- “Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.” ~ Brooks Atkinson
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“May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions.” ~ Joey Lauren Adams
- “I would say happy new year, but it’s not happy; it’s exactly the same as last year except colder.” ~ Robert Clark
- “New Year’s Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.” ~ James Agate
- “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Dieting on New Year’s Day isn’t a good idea as you can’t eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second.” ~ Helen Fielding
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“Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.” ~ Walter Scott
- “Let our New Year’s resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.” ~ Goran Persson
- “New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.” ~ Charles Lamb
- “Every man regards his own life as the New Year’s Eve of time.” ~ Jean Paul
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“The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year’s Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you’re married to.” ~ P. J. O’Rourke
- “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
- “Make your mistakes, next year and forever.” ~ Neil Gaiman
- “For last year’s words belong to last year’s language And next year’s words await another voice.” ~ T. S. Eliot
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“the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.” ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
- “The merry year is born Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.” ~ Hartley Coleridge
- “I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes…you’re Doing Something.” ~ Neil Gaiman
- “Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you’ve met your New Year’s resolution.” ~ Jay Leno
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“Glory to God in highest heaven, Who unto man His Son hath given; While angels sing with tender mirth, A glad new year to all the earth.” ~ Martin Luther
- “Let the dead Past bury its dead!” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- “Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.” ~ Oscar Wilde
- “Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you have always wanted to do but could not find the time. Call up a forgotten friend. Drop an old grudge, and replace it with some pleasant memories. Vow not to make a promise you do not think you can keep. Walk tall, and smile more. You will look 10 years younger. Do not be afraid to say, I love you. Say it again. They are the sweetest words in the world.” ~ Ann Landers
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“My New Year’s resolution was to stop saying ‘You go, girl’ to myself.” ~ Zach Galifianakis
- “A year of ending and beginning, a year of loss and finding… and all of you were with me through the storm. I drink your health, your wealth, your fortune for long years to come, and I hope for many more days in which we can gather like this.” ~ C. J. Cherryh
- “If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.” ~ Cyril Cusack
- “I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn’t be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year’s resolution is not to bark back.” ~ Tucker Carlson
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“Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.” ~ Delmore Schwartz
- “So I started shoveling Bob’s driveway, which is a strange thing to do at a New Years Eve Party” ~ Stephen Chbosky
- “Time is the school in which we learn.” ~ Joan Didion
- “Ring out the false, ring in the true.” ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
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“I think in terms of the day’s resolutions, not the years’.” ~ Henry Moore
- “Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.” ~ Hal Borland
- “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
- “May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early!” ~ Aleister Crowley
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“An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.” ~ Bill Vaughan
- “All of us every single year, we’re a different person. I don’t think we’re the same person all our lives.” ~ Steven Spielberg
- “Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
- “One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.” ~ John Burroughs
- “Let each new year find you a better person.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
